Today I’m going to share with you quotes about pain and life. The First Noble Truth of Buddhism is, life is suffering; includes birth, getting old, disease, and ultimately death.
Other than physical pain, we also have to endure psychological suffering like loneliness, frustration, fear, embarrassment, disappointment and anger.
The Third Noble Truth is that suffering can be overcome and happiness can be attained; that true happiness and contentment are possible. You can find out more from here.
Anyway, here are my selection of quotes about pain and life:
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Anonymous
“We cannot learn without pain.” – Aristotle
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” – Kahlil Gibran
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” – Jim Rohn
“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.” – William Faulkner
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” – Aristotle
“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” – Julius Caesar
“When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.”- Toni Morrison
“All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.” – Cicero
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.” – Lord Byron
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.” – Marcel Proust
“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.” – Karl Marx
“There are no gains without pains.” – Benjamin Franklin
“If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.” – George Santayana
“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.” – Herodotus
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